Free Political Prisoners

November 4, 1985

WARSAW, POLAND — Poland's leading intellectuals and other activists called on the government Sunday to free more than 350 political prisoners and end repression of the Polish people. The appeal was signed by 77 intellectuals and hundreds of others throughout the country. Signers included Solidarity founder Lech Walesa; Stefan Bratkowski, former chairman of the Polish Journalists Association; writer Tadeusz Konwicki; and film producer Andrzej Wajda, who made a film about the formation of Solidarity in 1980. About 8,000 people gathered in St. Brigida's Church in Gdansk applauded the text, read from the pulpit by priest Henryk Jankowski.